PhD programme
Why do your Strategy and Entrepreneurship PhD at London Business School?
We emphasise thorough training as a researcher as well as the capacity to ask and answer research questions that have a strong managerial relevance.
As well as formal coursework, students gain valuable research experience by working closely with faculty on projects. Our students have won awards for outstanding research at the Academy of Management.
Purpose of the programme
The SE PhD Programme is for people who want to pursue an academic career, related to how organisations can create value through superior competitive performance. The programme isn't suitable for people who want to return to business or consulting.
Structure of the programme
While we don't have positions to fill on particular research projects, there is considerable freedom to choose whatever you find interesting in the broad areas of strategy and enterpreneurship. SE faculty will provide the guidance and training you need.
Research varies from highly quantitative to purely qualitative and students have a variety of backgrounds including sociology, economics and psychology, as well as business.
Strategy and Entrepreneurship has strong links to other areas in the School - Organisational Behaviour, Management Science and Operations, and Economics - and links to other academic institutions.
Research topics
Topics include:
- innovation and entrepreneurship in large firms
- the theory of the firm and corporate scope
- technological change and its impact on firm strategy and industry structure
- management multinational corporations
- behavioural and cognitive foundations of strategy
- organisational learning
- the impact of informal and formal structures on firm performance.
Students' views
Marlo Raveendran, year of entry 2007
Current PhD students in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- Pinar Alpay
- Maya Cara
- Yang Fan
- Rahul Kumar
- Ramon Lecuona Torras
- Eucman Lee
- Xu Li
- Amandine Ody-Brasier
- Marlo Raveendran
- Jennifer Tae
